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THE UNITED ASHESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

2 Queen's Buildings.

Tel. Central 236.

AGENTS FOR

BRIGG'S ENAMELS & SOLUTIONS.

BITUMINOUS

SOLE AGENTS FOR

"UNION"

ANTI-CORROSIVE and ANTIFOULING COMPOSITIONS

FOR SHIP'S BOTTOMS.

G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS

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DIAMOND MERCHANTS

Union Building (Opposite G.P.0.)

Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, "KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.

CLP

"Ironing does not tire you

the ELECTRIC way.

Wherever Electric Light is used there is a place for the Electric Iran.

This labour-saver simply needs pushing along, its surface is always bright and heat regular.

No bother keeping the iron hot, no walking from stove to table, no waiting.

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Electric Irons are cheap, last a lifetirna and use only about one-third of a unit of ELECTRICITY for each höur óy continuous ironing.

AN ELECTRIC IRON MAKES IRONING A PLEASURE

Unless-

THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER Co.,. (1918)" Lid. Showroom :-62, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

you have visited our Dennison Department you cannot realise the wonderful variety of beautiful and useful articles that you can quickly learn to make of paper rope, crepe paper and scaling wax, at an almost unbelieveably low cost for materials.

You are invited-

to attend the classes in Dennison arts given" every' day in our store..

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Free instructions are given in--

Rope Weaving

Costume Making

Sealing War Art

(Children too

Flower Making

Novelties,

Decorations

and Favours

are invited to attend the classes. It is great training for the youngsters. They are given an opportunity for the expression of their creative and constructive instincts while making many pretty and fateresting things of Dennison's - Inexpensive materials.

DER A. WING & CO. (1923), LTD.

60, Des. Voeur Road, Central.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Mamorial of Ra-ontry by the A new school year begins at Crown on Kewloon Inland Lot No. the Central British School, Kow- 1656 and New Kowloon Inland Lot | loon, boïday. No. 481 have been registered ac cording to law.

It is notified that the name of the Wing Wo Company, Limited has It is notified that. a Memorial of been struck off the Register of Re-entry by the Government has | Companies, been registered according to law. in- respect of Tsing I Island Demarca- tion District No. 434 Lot No. 377.

Before Mr. T. W. Ainsworth, at

the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, Mr. L. V. Pinna. of Jordan Road was fined $6 för riding a bicycle on the wrong, side of Prince Edward Roud."

Two locul dunces drew large at- tendances last night. The "Semreh" band was at the "Hermes" ball in the Hotel Suvpy and the Dockyard Recreation Club spent a convivial evening at Latte, Crawford's restar- rant.

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It is notified that Memorials of Re-entry by the Crown on the fol lowing Loter in the Northern Dia- trict Mf the New Territories have been registered according to law D:D. No. 6, Lot No. 996, D.D. No. 11, Lots, Nos. 1440 and 1430B., D.D. No. 82, Lot No. 1463, D.D. No. 186,. Lot. No. 301, DB No. 131, Lot No. 877, and D.D. No. 189, Lots Nos. 1416, 1417, 1418 and 1419.

Where is the fortune, estimated. at £10,000,000, left by Sir Andrew Chadwick, "the brewer's "manager, who died in Marylebone in 1768, leaving neither au nor wil For years it has been believed that the money has been in Chancer In mail' week, however, it was offf- cially stated that after a search through the records of the Chan- Febry Court since. 1726 no trace of

the estate had been sound.

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As from to-day, the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, will be at the new Government Building, occupy ing the first floor on the Connaught Road side, fe above the Central Fire Station.

Mrs. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso Ingrata, widow of the Italian tenor, is engaged to Charles H. Wacker, jun/war aviator.

The Travel Association, which ' jsponsored the Floating, University

which visited Hong Kong last) autumn has issued a statement re- garding the pranks played by the Inine students who were sent home- at Kobe. The objects "thought- lessly removed from shrines in Japun were returned almost 'with- out exception and apologies sent to those concerned," the report says. It concludes: "In spite of the un-re-opened by the Kwanting fortunate events in Japan many prominent Japnaese expressed themselves as more than pleased with the arrangements carried out for contact and understanding be- tween American and Japanese students."

The cable office nt Shameen (closed in June. 1925) has been

Telegraph Administration. 'The manager. Mr. Chen Hsin-tseng notifies that under orders from the Nationalist Government, only Central Bank notes (at par with Canton subsidiary silver coin) will be accepted in payment,

A Chinese woman now in thre Kwong Wah Hospital la suspectad of having attempted suicide when she took an overdose of oplum, Shel was admitted yesterday.

Admitted to Kwong Wah Hos- pital with wounds from cuts yea- terday, a Chinese Woman is balley- ed to have quarrelled with her hus band. The Police are making in- quiries.

It is notified that, at the expira- tion of three months from date, the Hong Kong Lumber Company. Limited will unless cause is shown); to the contrary, be struck off the Re gister of Companies and the com- pany will be dissolved.

Mr. J. R. Carr of the Botanical Department prosecuted a Chinese In the Police Court this morning for unlawfully cutting pine trees on a Government plantation near Tytamtuk reservoir.“, «Accused had! a previous convletion and was fined. $50 or three months.

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The Shanghai pawnshop strike is about broken, insofar as a thousand employees have re- turned to work under an arrange- ment whereby each master will settle individual increases in pay in his own shop, and under a gen- eral arrangement whereby the proprietors agree to pay their employees one or two per cent. from the receipts of sales of un- redeemed property. The owners. have also agreed that an addi- tional quantity of congee shall be supplied daily. Consequently impoverished

Chinese young bloods can once again rely on "uncle" for assistance.

The following rule was made by the Governor in Council under! section 36 of the Tramway Ordin4] anoe. 1902, Ordinance No. 10 of 1-1902, on January --Appendix A to

the rules made by the Governor inj Council under section 36 of the|| Tramway Ordinance, 1902; which is set forth on pape 290 of the Re-] gulations of Hong Kong, 1844-1925, and which specifies the places at which ears shall be brought to a stand-stil, is amended by the dele- tion of the words "Junction Des Voeux Road Contral and Jubilee Street, at Central Market," in lines 14 and 15, and the substitution therefor of the words "Junction of Des Voeux Road Central and Queen Victoria Street," The foregoing) rule shall come into operation on January.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Miss Betty Balfour, the British film actress, is still dangerously fl in the Hotel Westminster, Paris. from pnuemonia and muscular rheumatism, states a message from London dated December 29,

The death is announced "in London of Sir Rupert Clarke aged 61.

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Mr. Israel Zangwill, who died on But he August 1, left 83,267. evidently thought his estate would be much larger when he wrote his The death has occurred of Mrs. will in 1920 in his own hand on a M. Baxter, founder of the, Cen-page out of an exercise book. He. tral Indian Hill Mission.

bequeathed £4,000“or “is much aa

is available in equal amount," to

A Paris message dated Decem-his three children, and all his her 29 records the death of M. literary properties to his wife, and

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Henry Cochin, the distinguished any surplus up to $1,000 to the Last 9 days They now Last 9 days

Major-General R.H, Morgan, CBE, who is advanced to that rank, at present commands the

French scholar and critic, who Zionist Organisation. Chatham Division. Ha "Was Senior Naval Intelligence Officer has died aged 73. in China in. 1911-16, and G.S.O... 1st grade, Hong Kong, during the last two years of the late

war.

For the command of H.M.S. "Heliotrope," which will replace the lost Valerian" on the North American Station, Commander V. E. Ward, a submarine com- mander, has been selected. He is familiar with the sloop class by. having commanded the "Magnolia" on the China Station in 1923-24.

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Friends of Mr. W. Woodatack Iate of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ponang, will be interested to learn that he has now made his home. In South Africa and has been appoint- ed District Sales Manager of the Ford Motor Co... (S.A.) Ltd., at Durban. He was to marry on December 3, Miss Avice Currie, of Durban.

The Lady Jane Grey. and Mrs. Theodore Stephenson, the wife of Major General T. E. Stephensor, C.B., who was some years ago G.0.0. in Singapore, are paying a visit to Hong Kong. They arrived here on the "Sarpedon" and propose staying with friends on the Peak for jaj month before returning to England. via Palestine,

The Royal Court photographers, of Rome have just made this portrait of Count Fermo Ratti, only brother of the Pope

Mra, Patrick McEnroy, wife of the proprietor of the Three Stage Hotel, Kennington Road was the Prince of Wales's first partner at the Bri- tish Legion's" dance at Lambeth Baths. Afterwards the Prince chose pretty Mlas Huckle, and danced the flat Charleston. When the band stopped he waved for more, and wound up a hectic two hours with the Paul Jones, in which he had four partners in as many minutes.

The marriage of Georgina Lady Sholto Douglas and Comte Fernand Bertier de Sauvigny has taken place) at Prince's-row Register Omce, The Buckingham Palace Road. witnesses were Mr. Mosselmans, brother of the bride, and Comte Gerard Bertier de Souvigny, brother of the bridegroom, and several friends were present. Afterwards thera was a luncheon "party at Claridge's Hotel, at which the| French Ambassador, Princens Lowenstein Wertheim, Lady Wemyss, ·Lady Cynthia Asquith, and Comte de Limur were among the guests.

The following deaths were re ported in mall week: Col. H. Cary George Batten, a barrister, who formerly practised on the western circuit, and a director of the Lon don County, Westminster and Parr's Bank, Ltd., at his Somerset, residence, aged 77. Councillor

The following deaths were re ported in mall week:Sir George W. Baxter, of Invereighty, For farshire, a Dundee flax many Mr. R. F. Johnston, C.B.E. facturer at Ashness, Keswick, one of the greatest authorities on Cumberland, aged 78. The Rev. Chira, who has been in London E. Macpherson C.M.G Alfred Lewis, a former chairman of for some months In connection C.B.E., formerly Assistant the Kettering Council, aged 72. with the proposal to remit the Chaplain General to the Forces, M. Edward Parry, of Ki Boxer Indemnity, left on Dec. 2 died at Chawton, Alton, Hamster, founder of "The for Tientsin. Mr. Johnston shire, where he was to have been minster Shuttle org spent some six years in Peking inducted as rector; aged 68. Cof

as tutor to the ex-Emperor Simeon Exham, superintending trade, an ex-may

derminster, aged Hauan Tung Mr. Johnston was engineer of the Portsmouth and received in audience by the King Roarth dockyards from 1898 to Ernest Nettle recently

1911, at Felixstowe, aged 76.

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ISAKO'S CIRCUS

JÄT | KOWLOONĮ.

SATURDAY, 8th JANUARY, at 9.15 p.m.

Grand Performance to Celebrate

50th ANNIVERSARY 50th

of Director Issko's connection with Circus Life. A specially brilliant programme entirely new, and atractive, will be selected. For the first time is Hong Kong, Mr. Isko will perfori a scene of MYSTICISM and CONJURING such as he hid the ronour to perform before many prominent persons

The Programme will consist, among others, of the following items: 1. Magician Indian Fakir. 2 Card Tricks

8. Modern Mysticism.

4. Preposterous Mystery. 5. The Magic Mirror.

6. Advantures. [..

7. Artificial Mathematics. 8. The Flood.

9. Disappearance Trick.

10. Mystery.

11. Trans@guration through Air. 12. Magic Corpse.

13. Linked and Unlinked.

14. Animals which vanish before the even at the publie 15. Transfiguration

into a chicken

as a host of ancient Egyptian and

Indian Magios,

man

Saturday & Sunday, 8th & 9th Jan. Special Matinee, at 3 pm.

A NEW AND ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME WILL BE

PRESENTED.

BOOKING AT ANDERSON'S.